Tucked away in The Sunday Times Prufrock column was an item that caught little old Betaville's eye.
The diary piece suggests Marc Boyan, a media entrepreneur that recently bought a stake in Charlton Atheltic football club, is interested in buying The Daily Telegraph. ..
George Osborne's new podcast show - Political Currency - has received a lot of media attention but little old Betaville was more interested in another podcast the former Chancellor of the Exchequer was involved with recently.
That podcast was the BBC's media show in which interviewer Katie Razzall asks a punch of pundits about sale of the The Daily Telegraph, which as loyal readers well know used to be little old Betaville's former employer...
There weren't too many deal stories in the British Sunday newspaper sections this weekend but there was one piece that caught little old Betaville's eye in the Saturday business section of The Times.
Emma Powell, who writes the Tempus column in the The Times, suggested BP, which last week saw its chief executive Bernard Looney step down amid allegations, could now be vulnerable to a takeover bid. Below is a link to her piece:..
I see The Daily Telegraph is this morning reporting on the front page of its business section that Aston Martin is a takeover target.
The newspaper, which used to be little old Betaville's former full time employer, based its takeover tale about the London-listed luxury marque on quotes from Jefferies analyst Philippe Houchois, who reportedly said: "The relationship agreement between Geely and Yew Tree provides a floor and conditions for a potential takeover."..
To the H/Advisors party at Savoy Place in central London...
A fascinating interview has just been published in the Press Gazette.
The interviewer is The Genteel Hustler, otherwise known as Will Turvill, an incredibly polite but very persistent young hack. The interviewee is The Kleinmanator, otherwise known as Mark Kleinman, City Editor of Sky News and one of the most profilic merger and acquisition scoopsters working in UK media. Below is the link to the piece:..
Charming Crispin Odey can't seem to catch a break - well, in the mainstream media at least.
Since 2015 he took a shoeing in the press for the terrible performance of his (ironically named) Odey European Fund fund over the last decade amid his prognistcations of doom...
Ben Marlow of The Daily Telegraph, little old Betaville's former employer, has written a lengthy opinion piece on Vodafone.
Let me sum it up for you: if Vodafone doesn't do something quickly to arrest its flagging share price (down almost 50pc over the last five years) it could well easily become a takeover target for one of the "wealthy American telecom giants"...
There was plenty of follow up coverage in today's papers of little old Betaville's Darktrace scoop but the piece that really stood out is the one written by Russell Hotten, a former colleague from time on The Daily Telegraph's city desk...
So, it was good call by my old boss at The Daily Telegraph - Richard Fletcher, now business editor of The Times - to splash on the Elon Musk Twitter bid rumours the other day.
Musk's announcement about his $41 billion ($54.20 a share) offer for Twitter has sent the Twittersphere into total meltdown about what might happen next...